S8DS is more or less a port of SMSAdvance to the NDS. It emulates the Sega Master System and the Sega Game Gear.

The biggest difference from the SMSAdvance is probably that you don’t have to use a builder to add roms, you can use zipped files directly and the screen doesn’t have to be scaled to fit.

Changes:

*Added R as FastForward.
*Fixed Bios handling on MD (Frogger proto GG2SMS works).
*Fixed “Border Off” for GG.
*Sprite collision is now “On” by default.
*Changed R as GG start to X as GG Start.

Thanks to http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=188675 and http://www.nintendomax.com/index.php?topic_id=10793 for the news.

http://www.ndsretro.com/

The tale of Miner Willy and his incredible adventures in the mines, and then the mansions, of Surbiton is legend. But like all legends, it doesn’t tell the whole story.

Most people know Willy simply as a digger who got lucky and lived happily ever after in decadent luxury. Far fewer know the secret – suppressed for quarter of a century by the government – of how he also saved Planet Earth from alien invasion.

It wasn’t until an eccentric but dedicated historian writing a paper for a renowned academic journal (Retro Gamer issue 63) pieced together the complete saga of Willy’s heroic exploits from fragments of scattered evidence – in the form of obscure retellings of the ‘Manic Miner’ folk fable in ancient languages readable only via long-obsolete machines – that the whole truth was finally revealed.

Welcome to Manic Miner – The Lost Levels!

Thanks to http://www.nintendomax.com/index.php?topic_id=10803 for the news.

http://headsoft.com.au/index.php?category=mmll

Thermo Nono released “Flechettes”. It’s a NDS homebrew Darts game written using Lua.

Thanks to http://www.nintendomax.com/index.php?topic_id=10806 for the news.

http://microlua.xooit.fr/t432-jeu-adresse-Flechettes.htm

Infantile Paralysiser updated his excellent shell application MoonShell.

An english description about the supported file formats can be found here: http://mdxonlinemirror.dyndns.org/Readme_ENG.html

Thanks to http://mobiles.gx-mod.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=9036 and http://www.nintendomax.com/index.php?topic_id=10807 for the news.

http://home.att.ne.jp/blue/moonlight/

Zogna is a calculator for NDS.

Thanks to http://www.nintendomax.com/index.php?topic_id=10808 for the news.

http://code.google.com/p/zognc/

Bunjalloo is a web browser for the Nintendo DS. It under active development, and can already display simple pages, follow links and view images.

Changes in 0.7.7:

Spaces at the start of elements change ( issue 112 )
Fix relative query links ( issue 110 )
Tabs were shown as an invalid character, instead of a space
Warranty shown as html

Thanks to http://www.tehskeen.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=15291 and http://www.nintendomax.com/index.php?topic_id=10809 for the news.

http://code.google.com/p/quirkysoft/

Pokemon Mini-Game is a collection of Pokemon related minigames.

Thanks to http://www.nintendomax.com/index.php?topic_id=10812 for the news.

http://microlua.xooit.fr/t403-Pokemon-Mini-Game.htm?start=75

PhonyCall 0.9 is a “fake call” open source freeware. The program allows you to fake a call to yourself, giving you a tool to avoid akward situations. There are many programs that now do similar functions, but they are not free, nor as highly customizable.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=485654

n3tfusion wrote a little application for WM6.1 mainly for the users of the Belgian mobile service provider “Mobile Vikings”.

Quote:

Features:
– Show the expiration date of your free data/sms
– Show the remaining credits(€), data and sms.
– Show the call/data/sms/mms history
– Show the Topup History
– Phone number = Contact’s name
– Auto-Update ( choose between 5-10-15-30min-1h-2h-3h)
– Notification Bubble for Auto-Update to get an quick Sim Balance info
– Language : French, English, Dutch
– New UI, Manila Look with Kinetic Scrolling [ Thanks to michyprima ! ]
– Date Picker for History

Important!
You need the .net CF 3.5 !

Changes:

[28/10/2009]1.04 -Phonenumber is replaced by Contact’s name ! Some bug fixed, new arrow pictures, The 3 parts are now updated separately, auto-update : only the sim balance –> New button for update the topup.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=565601

Touch Reader is a text file reader that has touch scroll. This program is still in early development, and is not very pretty at all.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=580602